Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780718141325
ISBN number: 0718141326
Label: Michael Joseph Ltd
Manufacturer: Michael Joseph Ltd
Page Count: 464
Printing Date: August 29, 1996
Publishing house: Michael Joseph Ltd
Sale Popularity Level: 2638558
Studio: Michael Joseph Ltd
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Provides convincing evidence that angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a giant race predating humanity, spoken of in the Bible as the Nephilim.
• Indicates that the earthly paradise of Eden was a realm in the mountains of Kurdistan.
• By the author of Gateway to Atlantis.
Our mythology describes how beings of great beauty and intelligence, who served as messengers of gods, fell from grace through pride. These angels, also known as Watchers, are spoken of in the Bible and other religious texts as lusting after human women, who lay with them and gave birth to giant offspring called the Nephilim. These religious sources also record how these beings revealed forbidden arts and sciences to humanity--transgressions that led to their destruction in the Great Flood.
Andrew Collins reveals that these angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a race predating our own. He offers evidence that they lived in Egypt (prior to the ancient Egyptians), where they built the Sphinx and other megalithic monuments, before leaving the region for what is now eastern Turkey following the cataclysms that accompanied the last Ice Age. Here they lived in isolation before gradually establishing contact with the developing human societies of the Mesopotamian plains below. Humanity regarded these angels--described as tall, white-haired beings with viperlike faces and burning eyes--as gods and their realm the paradise wherein grew the tree of knowledge. Andrew Collins demonstrates how the legends behind the fall of the Watchers echo the faded memory of actual historical events and that the legacy they have left humanity is one we can afford to ignore only at our own peril.
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I am reading this book, for the past week and am at page 200. You can see where the author (Collins) is going. He is making all things heavinly as tangeable. I was just waiting for the punchline that he thinks these are Nordic Vikings.
He believes that these "Watchers" were just a highly evolved race of people who lived up in a mountain (Heaven) and descended down the mountians (plains of earth). If this is so, where did they come from? The Book of Enoch says that God told the Watchers he created them not to have wives and that reproducing was for man's benefit. Angels were men or male. Why would Enoch call these beings Angels if they were clearly men, white men or Chinese men? Enoch wasn't an idiot, he knew what a man was.
Collins did very little justice to the Book of Enoch and just quoted what would suit his beliefs negating the larger issues.
Though most Bible students and those who study Middle Eastern legends would rightly know that these people (Hebrews,Medians etc) are really link together but with differing stories. Stories orginate from one source. The Bible is a small excerpt of history. To read the book of Genesis, the very first 10 chapters and assume that all the knowledge is right there would be wrong. They come from a much larger source which is good about Collins book.
I am however disappointed on how he portrays Enoch's visions (Heaven Fact or Fantasy) as just walking up mountains and seeing different levels on earth. I started to wonder if Collins believes in God (YWHY), Biblical prophecy and/or the supernatural. Also, the Book of Enoch says that these Watcher Angels gave him these visions, meaning, they would have to have a supernatural way about them. Like the Book of Daniel, when the angel visits him, Collins tries to make this more human to human when Daniel clearly had a vision and Angels as astronomers.
Collins does a good job at trying to present things as fact but as one reviewer said and I totally agree turns into a question or "could it be?" Rehtorical questions. Why is he questioning the reader, he's been doing the research for so long in his opening. In the same breath claims that Jew and Christians have the wrong views?
Like many other authors trying to make sense of the Bible and old legends tries hard to link stories but with no facts, more just theories. The Bible is to be a historical book but he is quoting from old fable tales from old Middle Eastern stories known as fables. The Bible is not presented as a fable book, we are to believe it is God's Word. The Bible is a mystery.
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This book includes some excellent research, and the author has no particular axe to grind. He leaves the reader to form his own opinion. Most of the material was not new to me, but nevertheless it was well-assembled and coherently explained. The focus of the book is the Fall and the origin of evil, and quite frankly that must be the most important topic that there is. But for some reason, it isn't. Most of us accept the world the way it is and consider that there is no point in asking why. So I applaud the author's efforts. One day, we will know who and what we are, and why we behave as we do. Until that time, this book is as good a start as any other.
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Very well researched and very well written book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.
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The connections this author makes between old legends, myths and the resulting biblical implications are amazing. His theories on the Watchers and angels being from a lost antediluvian civlization did the trick for me. Best argument against the Bible being literal truth ever presented. If you are religious read this and be prepared for your eyes to be opened by the history that's been hidden by your hypocitical churches for too long.
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This is a very interesting book with lots of new ways to look at Biblical stories and Eastern mythologies, but Andrew Collins style of writing leaves so much to be desired that it makes the reading very heavy going. He seems to finish every 3rd sentence with a question mark - "Could it be?" "Does this mean that?" so I just found myself scanning the pages for the hosts of question marks in the text! He also tends to make huge leaps to connect facts that he states as being 'obviously' and 'irrefutably' true when really they are tenuous or just interesting connections.
I'm very interested in Near Eastern mythology, biblical apocrypha, nephilim and watcher legends etc so this was a worthwhile book for me. I just feel that Collins needs to work on his writing to make it more academic and less sensationalist.
I'd give this book a 4 or 5 for interesting content but really only a 2 for the way it is written.
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